Abstract
One of the obvious impacts of comprehensive economic sanctions is on pharmaceuticals and supplies, which are essential elements of all functioning health systems. Observers report that comprehensive sanctions imposed on Iran are a barrier to Iran's coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) crisis and could impede Iran's access to coronavirus vaccines. In this minireview, we discuss COVID-19 and its human rights dimensions of U.S. sanctions on Iran. We believe fighting COVID-19 with limited resources during sanctions will produce a humanitarian crisis, and coronavirus is a convincing reason to lift the sanctions on Iran.
Highlights
As an alternative to military confrontation, the United States has imposed sanctions over the countries that do not follow U.S policies
The United States says food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies are exempt from sanctions, it impacts the availability of basic medications and critical raw materials needed for their production.[1,2]
The COVID-19 crisis has constrained the economic activity of many countries, especially Iran, that are under U.S sanctions
Summary
As an alternative to military confrontation, the United States has imposed sanctions over the countries that do not follow U.S policies. Keywords COVID-19, sanctions, human rights, Iran, US
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